Word: mise
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...been unthinkable for me prior to attendance. The extent to which I found myself drawn into the performance rivaled what only rarely happens to me in observing professional, ‘real-world’ theater. Indeed, Donahue’s prowess extended far beyond mere mise-en-scene. I had been cautioned, prior to attending The Physicists, that Dürrenmatt’s script had its imperfections. However, much to his credit Donahue has eliminated many of its weaker stretches, and the resulting dialogue and plot pacing is excellent for that intervention...
...crawling” across Tyler’s exposed mid-section to an undisclosed location. But we’ve all seen Child’s Play. Bay deftly blankets the sequence with attractive, flirtatious cinematography, but the sinister gaze of the animal cracker rules the mise-en-scene. The suggestion that the seemingly benign cracker could come alive and sell the two actors into slavery to Jerry Bruckheimer makes this brief romantic interlude truly terrifying...
...other hand, this movie also tells me that beating the hell out of puppets is funny. Although Parker and Stone manage to do some impressive stuff with these marionettes, in the end, they are just little toy people hanging from very visible strings and this ridiculous mise-en-scene is the source of a lot of this movie’s laughs...
...Tarantino Jury did give a prize to a politically correct road movie, but not this one. Instead, the Mise-en-Scene (Best Director) award went to Tony Gatlif, the Algerian-born French auteur of ?Exiles,? about the southbound trip two young people take from France through Spain to return to their parents? birthplace in Algeria. You could canvass critics from Sweden to the Sahara and not find one who liked the movie - but that?s juries...
...Suddenly there's a flurry of guidebooks on how to entertain with flair. Lilly Pulitzer offers tips for the perfect twilight campfire with her signature preppy style in Essentially Lilly (Harper Resource). Kate Spade's Occasions (Simon & Schuster) walks would-be hosts through the nuts and bolts of the mise-en-scene of the party before tackling gatherings like tailgates and barbecues. And publicists Lara Shriftman and Elizabeth Harrison bring their expertise in planning bashes for clients like Mercedes-Benz and Cartier to the rest of us with Fete Accompli! (Clarkson Potter) in September. But the best advice...